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True MACHINIST gunsmiths? (a rare breed)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ckgworks" data-source="post: 1477163" data-attributes="member: 105102"><p>While I agree there are at ones that shouldn't call themselves smiths, everyone starts somewhere and I think it's the ones that stop their personal growth that you need to stay away from.....Like Reload26 taxidermy example....(I love the fish BTW!). Some "smiths " don't know their own limits and are content to practice on customer guns...... I think the sadder thing is why people pay them to do it. It's pretty tough to find one person that is an "expert craftsman" in every single trade needed to build a gun from scratch. I have done enough checkering that I feel decent about my skills, but I also know that I don't do enough of it to be fast enough to make money doing it. I think most Smith's excel in one or two areas, and are passable on the rest. I really don't like standards in cases like this, if you can't visit with a smith, look at their work, and talk to others and figure out whether to use them, that's on you. An example: I know a older concrete pre-caster who does great work, but dosen't really keep up with technology/modern times. Corporations have push through "standards" on architectureal precast concrete (not structural) companies in order to bid on public work. He is basically screwed because he needs to go get himself and his physical shop certified just to be able to bid certain jobs......all this does is push out the little guy that knows what he's doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ckgworks, post: 1477163, member: 105102"] While I agree there are at ones that shouldn't call themselves smiths, everyone starts somewhere and I think it's the ones that stop their personal growth that you need to stay away from.....Like Reload26 taxidermy example....(I love the fish BTW!). Some "smiths " don't know their own limits and are content to practice on customer guns...... I think the sadder thing is why people pay them to do it. It's pretty tough to find one person that is an "expert craftsman" in every single trade needed to build a gun from scratch. I have done enough checkering that I feel decent about my skills, but I also know that I don't do enough of it to be fast enough to make money doing it. I think most Smith's excel in one or two areas, and are passable on the rest. I really don't like standards in cases like this, if you can't visit with a smith, look at their work, and talk to others and figure out whether to use them, that's on you. An example: I know a older concrete pre-caster who does great work, but dosen't really keep up with technology/modern times. Corporations have push through "standards" on architectureal precast concrete (not structural) companies in order to bid on public work. He is basically screwed because he needs to go get himself and his physical shop certified just to be able to bid certain jobs......all this does is push out the little guy that knows what he's doing. [/QUOTE]
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